Keres's One Move Knockout (Keres vs Spassky, Gothenburg, 1955)

Paul Keres (1916-1975) doesn't need an introduction in the chess world. When I was growing up in Estonia in the 90s he was still known to everybody (partly because he was on the 5 crown note shown below).

I've been recently reading "Paul Keres, The Quest for Perfection", a game collection authored by Keres & John Nunn. I thought I'd give you a taste by presenting a game where Keres plays the Queen's Indian Colle-Zukertort style against Spassky in the Gothenburg Interzonal tournament in 1955 and wins with with a bolt out of the blue. The highly instructive annotations are from the above book (I hope that they inspire you to read it).

I'm an academic philosopher and an amateur chess player rated around 1700-1900 here in Daily, Blitz (10 min), and Rapid. I'm also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt and a latin dancer. I blog about how someone at my level tries to improve, interesting opening lines, chess books & videos, my own games, and so on. Perhaps at some point I will also write something quasi-philosophical about pattern recognition in chess.